Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs-tools failure that I can't figure out

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 09:04:42AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > On Monday, 25 May 2020 04:15:23 CEST Ben Wellborn wrote: >> I'm not sure of the history of the server's libpcap install. Too many >> chefs and only one pot. I know, that doesn't help. Your question did >> prompt me to check versions and discover that there's a 1.9.0 version in >> the BaseOS repo. I removed the previous package and loaded the new one. >> >> a quick ldd test >> ~]# ldd /usr/lib/systemd/systemd | grep libpcap >> libpcap.so.1 => /lib64/libpcap.so.1 (0x00007fc395a38000) > This looks fine. > > Also, looking at the libpcap-and-rebuild-testing.txt you provided > previously, it looked like there is a package, pfring, that installs > libpcap in /usr/local/lib: > > supermin: rpm: multiple providers: requirement libpcap.so.1()(64bit): providers: libpcap pfring > supermin: rpm: multiple providers: picked pfring > > At least according to a quick search, it seems that this is the case: > https://centos.pkgs.org/7/forensics-x86_64/pfring-7.6.0-2990.x86_64.rpm.html > This is... bad: a package that: > - installs a library in /usr/local > - may override a system-critical library > - even RPM-provides the system library (!) And omits the /usr/local/lib/libpcap.so.1 symlink from the file list. I think it would work if only it included this file, although still be a bad, bad package for all the other reasons. Rich. > This is a scholar example of things that can go wrong when packaging > local stuff :-/ > > Do you still have that package installed? Can you please try by > temporarly removing it? > >> but when I ran virt-sysprep it complains about libpcap again: >> "systemd-tmpfiles: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.1: >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" > Try to clean the cached libguestfs appliance before, using > $ rm -rf /var/tmp/.guestfs-$(id -u) > > -- > Pino Toscano > _______________________________________________ > Libguestfs mailing list > Libguestfs(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs